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by pktgen 12y ago
> A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, that will not be put into effect, or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist. ( http:/&#
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by pktgen 12y ago
Vanguard has an interesting ownership structure where the funds own the Vanguard company. They're basically (but not "officially" as far as I can tell) a non-profit, and that's why their fees tend to be the lowest.
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by pktgen 12y ago
Hmm, I must be missing something here. The caption on the photo I see is "Alex Stamos, CISO, Yahoo" - nothing special there?
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by pktgen 12y ago
If you don't max out the BCP $6k, make sure you buy Visa gift cards at a grocery store to max it out. :)
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by pktgen 12y ago
LOL. Booters (that carry out DDoS attacks which are illegal in CloudFlare's own country)? No problem for CloudFlare. Trying to circumvent Chinese content restrictions? Nope, that's unauthorized!
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by pktgen 12y ago
We do have a very strong law, the TCPA, that prohibits robocalls to cell phones without prior consent, with a private right of action and a $500-$1,500 _per violation_ (per call at least) penalty. It won't do you much good against scam
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by pktgen 12y ago
> And yet people and companies continue to do business with them. If a company like Goldman approached me about doing a deal on a credit swap, I'd assume I'm going to get the shaft - but large pension companies continue to work
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by pktgen 12y ago
AKA racketeering.
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by pktgen 12y ago
No, CloudFlare intentionally lets this happen. They won't terminate a site's service for "merely" selling DDoS services. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7967615 for some old discussion on this,
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by pktgen 12y ago
> You might talk to Amazon directly - they've been known to forgive debts like these in these kinds of circumstances. They did: > Lucky for me, I explained my situation to Amazon customer support – and they knew I wasn’t bitcoin
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by pktgen 12y ago
Hmm, I may have misunderstood. When you say "without compensation," do you mean they're still getting their normal hourly wage but without any additional compensation (overtime) for working the extra hours? Or $0 compensation
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by pktgen 12y ago
> - have them work extra-hours without compensation I'm not familiar with German labor laws, but I know this is (typically) illegal in the US and I suspect that can't be different in other first world countries. Is it?
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by pktgen 12y ago
Thanks. I just tried it but unfortunately it's not any better than the others - even over LAN at 1280x720 with "optimize for speed" enabled, it's still not anywhere near usable. (I also verified, with a packet capture, t
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Ask HN: Usable remote desktop over WAN
3 points by pktgen 12y ago|2 comments
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by pktgen 12y ago
This is kind of unclear, but are you saying T-Mobile's model is equivalent to the traditional carrier subsidy model? It really isn't, precisely because of the separation you mention - you can choose not to buy a new phone and you
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by pktgen 12y ago
Every dollar is effectively taxed an infinite number of times; I don't understand why corporation/shareholder double taxation is a special case. A 0% corporate income tax rate would just allow unlimited tax deferment.
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by pktgen 12y ago
It definitely is CenturyLink. Their Level 3 interconnects have been saturated for awhile, longer than March.
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by pktgen 12y ago
Here's part of Wikipedia's description of the case you cited: > By 1916, the Ford Motor Company had accumulated a capital surplus of $60 million. The price of the Model T, Ford's mainstay product, had been successively cut
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by pktgen 12y ago
I would think the professional/algorithmic traders would have done that the millisecond the news came out. By the time you're hearing about it at lunch, it would be too late.
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by pktgen 12y ago
I hope there's a future feature to disable pairing records and require the phone to be unlocked every time it is connected to a computer (before it can be synced). I find that I rarely need to sync with a computer, so I would not be bo
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by pktgen 12y ago
According to http://www.apple.com/iphone-6/apple-pay/ : > Apple Pay works with most of the major credit and debit cards from the top U.S. banks. Just add your participating cards to Passbook and you’ll continue
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by pktgen 12y ago
Not necessarily terrible for cardholders, in competitive markets. Comcast won't lower their rates to account for the lower credit card fees but all the grocery store chains probably will, since they have to compete with each other. I&#
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by pktgen 12y ago
Is it just me or is this name kind of poor? "I'll check my Apple Watch" just doesn't sound as good as "I'll check my iWatch." What's next, the Apple Phone?
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by pktgen 12y ago
I want to go into this in more detail. The skills learned in a business administration program, in themselves, are useless for actually creating a product or service to sell or practicing some field (e.g. law, medicine, etc.). The skills ta
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by pktgen 12y ago
CS is a field of value creation. BA is a field of sucking things dry, i.e. destroying value.
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by pktgen 12y ago
No. MBAs are parasites.
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by pktgen 12y ago
I'm aware, such a stance is definitely on the very opposite end of the simplicity of a total market fund. Even choosing some sector funds is difficult. REITs for example would seem to be an easy one in my opinion (I see nothing wrong w
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by pktgen 12y ago
I'm not sure I follow you about giving them 17 times that value. If I think a company is evil, that means I won't be buying their products, so if they're paying for my ad impression, that's good from my point of view bec
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by pktgen 12y ago
I refuse to hold broad funds for this reason. It's much less convenient and potentially a lot costlier (making individual stock trades or at least sticking to smaller sector funds, which generally have higher expense ratios, where I ca
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by pktgen 12y ago
Agreed. For now you can use bridge mode and rate limit on your router (to counter the ridiculous buffer on the modem).

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